Wilting after Super Cropping

1) PICTURE OF PLANT *** VERY IMPORTANT *** - See below
2) Growing indoor or outdoors - Indoors
3) Watering schedule - Canna A & B, 5ml each per 2l water.
4) Medium - Coco Coir
5) What stage of growth - Flowering (see below)

I super cropped the top of my plant as it was getting too close to the light and it has started to look pretty sad. It was unsupported on 180 degree for close to 24hr before I decided to give it some support in photos.

It was looking like it was drying out so I have started spraying it with water. Leaves still feel alive and haven't started to go crispy/dead yet just drooping and curling up. The rest of the plant appears to be doing just fine. Any advise to save this section? Should I trim it right back? Leave it and wait and see how it fairs? Keep spraying with water?

Background:
This is my first grow. I had some bag seed I germinated and had 2 plants (bird ate one of them). This was more of a give it a shot and see how it goes before I move to some seed I bought online.

Plants were growing by my window sill and had started to flower on its own while being quite under developed. 14hr light days here, hot humid climate. Decided to set up the grow light (300w Led) with carbon exhaust fan in my cupboard and see how it would go. Went straight to 12/12 to keep it flowering.

I went away for 1.5 weeks. I put some wicks in to a bucket of nutrient water and the light on the timer. I came back and the flowering had grown A LOT! Turns out I must have bumped the timer when I tied it up so it looks like it had gone back to veg stage as it was getting 18/6 roughly light schedule. Imeddiately switched it back to 12/12 (approx 2 days ago) and super cropped it at the top as it was too tall 24hrs ago. Should I stay 12/12 for it to heal?

It will be fine. Do not overwater.

Some of the leaves are dead or dying but some look like they are starting to come back. Should I trim the off as they go crunchy or just leave it alone?

bju90 said:

Some of the leaves are dead or dying but some look like they are starting to come back. Should I trim the off as they go crunchy or just leave it alone?

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I'd guess like Hotrod says said leave it alone. I'm no pro but I think if your supercrop was hanging 180 degrees then you over bent it. I supercropped last grow and it would be like a 90 degree bend or maybe 15 degrees more but not 180. Then it starts straigtening up on it's own some. But your band aid is a good idea. It may come back totally just give it time.

Thanks for the help. I got my angles mixed up haha, was 90 degrees or only slightly past. Looks worse again this morning. I'll let it go and see what it does. This was only a test grow to see how the plant handles our summer so this is all useful testing.

My only thought is at what point is it sapping extra energy that could be going to the rest of the plant? I could also drop the light down to get more coverage on the rest of the plant. Rather see it recover though.

I had to read your post again. I thought the trouble started when you super cropped it to hard and it broke, but now I think you're saying it was too close to the light and got burnt. I haven't encountered that. But I think it may take 3 or 4 weeks to show growth again. It's sort of like revegging which I have done and that's how long that took. It looks like you still have life in the stems which means the stem isn't broke. I wouldnt remove the band aid either. You might rip the branch. I've made that mistake with tape.